The English CastleB. T. Batsford, Limited, 1936 - 120 pages |
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... course , obvious that the rampart must be raised on the defender's side of the ditch ; this is invariably so with defensive earthwork . It will be appreciated that earthwork by itself will not serve as more than an obstruction to check ...
... course , obvious that the rampart must be raised on the defender's side of the ditch ; this is invariably so with defensive earthwork . It will be appreciated that earthwork by itself will not serve as more than an obstruction to check ...
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... course , applies to the most primitive plan in which there were only the two rooms . ) It will be seen that this arrangement gave no room for storage of any description , and it was thus usual wherever possible to divide the house into ...
... course , applies to the most primitive plan in which there were only the two rooms . ) It will be seen that this arrangement gave no room for storage of any description , and it was thus usual wherever possible to divide the house into ...
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... course be realised that the great stone keeps which have been dealt with during the course of this chapter were only added to those castles which did not already possess the earthen towers or mottes described in the last chapter . The ...
... course be realised that the great stone keeps which have been dealt with during the course of this chapter were only added to those castles which did not already possess the earthen towers or mottes described in the last chapter . The ...
Contents
CASTLES OF EARTH | 3 |
GREAT STONE TOWERS | 23 |
LOFTY WALLS | 56 |
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arch architects architecture bailey barbican basement Bayeux Tapestry Beaumaris beautiful besiegers Bishop's Waltham built Caerphilly castellan castle halls CASTLE RISING castle-builders chapel Chepstow Chilham circular constructed crenellated cross-wall defences ditch domestic buildings Dover early Norman earthwork Edward Edwardian elaborate enclosure engines England English castle entrance passage erected example feudal figs fireplace forebuilding fortified fortress fourteenth century Framlingham gallery garrison gate gatehouse hall and chamber hall-keep Henry HEREFORDSHIRE interior Kidwelly later latrines lord main floor masonry Maxstoke mediaeval middle military moat MONMOUTHSHIRE motte motte-and-bailey castles Norman castle Orford outer palisades Portchester possibly protected ramparts remains Rochester roof round keep royal castles ruins Saxon scarps seems seen shell-keep Shropshire side siege stair staircase stone walls storey stronghold structures summit surrounded Sussex thirteenth century timber castle to-day tower Tower of London tower-keeps trebuchet triforium twelfth century upper usually wall-towers Yorkshire